SPECIAL WINTER CANADA GOOSE SEASON HUNTING AREAS NEW JERSEY

For the north, it is that portion of New Jersey within a continuous line that runs 2010-2011 MIGRATORY
east along the New York boundary line to the Hudson River; then south along the
New York State boundary to its intersection with Route 440 at Perth Amboy; then BIRD REGULATIONS
west on Route 440 to its intersection with Route 287; then west along Route 287 (See Fish & Wildlife Hunting Digest for
to its intersection with Route 206 in Bedminster (Exit 18); then north along Route Additional Hunting Regulations)
206 to its intersection with Route 94; then west along Route 94 to the toll bridge in
Columbia; then north along the Pennsylvania State boundary in the Delaware
River to the beginning point . MAJOR CHANGES FOR THE 2010-11 SEASON
For the south, it is that portion of New Jersey within a continuous line that runs  The pintail daily bag limit was increased to 2 birds.
west from the Atlantic Ocean at Ship Bottom along Route 72 to Route 70; then  The light goose daily bag limit during the regular season was increased
west along Route 70 to Route 206; then south along Route 206 to Route 536; to 25 birds with no possession limit.
then west along Route 536 to Route 322; then west along Route 322 to Route 55;  Brant season will be closed during part of the duck season in all zones.
then south along Route 55 to Route 553 (Buck Rd.); then south along Route 553
 There will be a Conservation Order season for light geese from
to Route 40; then east along Route 40 to Route 55; then south along Route 55 to
Feb. 16 - Apr. 9, 2011. See page 4 for details.
Route 552 (Sherman Av e . ) ; then west along Route 552 to Carmel Rd.; then
 Scaup season will be open for the duration of the duck season with a 2-
south along Carmel Rd. to Route 49; then east along Route 49 to Route 555; then
bird bag limit.
south along Route 555 to Route 553; then east along Route 553 to Route 649;
then north along Route 649 to Route 670; then east along Route 670 to Route 47;  The wood duck daily bag limit was increased to 3 birds in 2008 and
then north along Route 47 to Route 548; then east along Route 548 to Route 49; remains the same for the 2010-2011 season.
then east along Route 49 to Route 50; then south along Route 50 to Route 9; then
south along Route 9 to Route 625 (Sea Isle City Blvd.); then east along Route 625 WHAT DO I NEED TO HUNT MIGRATORY BIRDS IN NEW JERSEY?
to the Atlantic Ocean; then north to the beginning point. Hunting HIP NJ Stamp Federal
Species Hunted
License Certification Certification Stamp
Crows X
North Woodcock, rails, X X
Area moorhens, snipe
Ducks, brant, geese X X X X
WATERFOWL STAMP – A NJ Waterfowl Stamp Certification and Migratory Bird
Hunting and Conservation Stamp (Federal Duck Stamp) are required for all
waterfowl hunters 16 years of age and older and must be signed in ink across
the face of the stamp. New Jersey Stamp Certifications (the state stamp itself
no longer exists) are available from license agents and from the “Licenses
and Permits” page on the Division’s web site. Federal stamps are available
from some US Post Offices and online at
http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps/Stamps.htm.

Notes and Exceptions HARVEST INFORMATION PROGRAM (HIP)

South All hunters must obtain a HIP certification before hunting ducks, geese, brant,
Closed Season: For all swans, harlequin ducks, king rails and mourning doves.
Area coot, woodcock, rails, snipe, or gallinules. Migratory bird hunters can get their
Sea Duck Limit—Daily bag limit in the special sea duck area and during the sea duck season is 7 sea ducks HIP certification one of three ways:
including scoters, long-tailed ducks and eiders, no more than 4 of which may be scoters. Outside the special sea 1. Online at the license sales page at:
duck area and during the regular duck season, sea ducks are included in the daily bag limit of six (6) ducks.
http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/als/websalesintro.htm
Daily Duck Bag Limit is 6 ducks and it may not include more than: 2. From a license agent.
REPORT BANDED BIRDS 4 mallards (including no more than 2 hens) 3. By calling the toll-free NJ telephone sales line at 888-277-2015.
4 scoters 2 redheads 2 scaup 6 goldeneye 6 long-tailed duck 6 ruddy duck All 3 methods allow hunters to go hunting immediately after registering.
www.reportband.gov OR (800) 327- BAND 1 canvasback 2 pintails 6 wigeon 6 shoveler 6 blue-winged teal 6 eider Online and license agent HIP certifications will cost $2.00 while telephone HIP
1 black duck 3 wood ducks 6 gadwall 6 bufflehead 6 green-winged teal 6 ring-necked duck certifications will include a shipping/handling fee and cost $5.13. Internet HIP
Hunters reporting via the web will receive immediate feedback on where Merganser Bag Limits (Common, red breasted and hooded) Daily bag limit is 5 mergansers, certifications can be printed on a home computer. Telephone HIP
and when the bird was banded, as well as species, age and sex of the only 2 of which may be a hooded mergansers. Possession limit is 10, except hooded mergansers which is 4 birds. certifications will be received in about 1 week; however, hunters can begin
bird. Bands can also be reported by phone at 1-800-327-BAND or via Merganser limits are in addition to duck limits. hunting immediately by recording their HIP certification number. HIP
postal service at the address inscribed on the band. Special September Canada Goose Season Regulations in effect September 1-30, 2010 only. certification should be carried in the hunter’s license holder. HIP certifications
1. Electronic calls are permitted are valid from Sept. 1, 2010 to February 15, 2011. Information collected for
2. Shotguns capable of holding no more than 7 shells (including magazine and chamber) are permitted.
HIP is confidential and used by the USFWS for conducting migratory bird
REPORT HUNTING VIOLATIONS 3. Hunting hours: 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.
harvest surveys.
Falconry (Hawking) - Special Season dates and bag limits. Contact NJ Div. of Fish and Wildlife,
24 HR DEP HOTLINE 877-WARNDEP (927-6337)
Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days
OPERATION GAME THIEF 800-222-0456 (Anonymous) Open only for holders of valid youth hunting licenses 15 years old or younger and accompanied by a non-shooting www.njfishandwildlife.com
individual at least 21 years of age with a hunting license. Each youth may participate in 1 to 4 days.

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SUMMARY OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
The following is a synopsis of Federal Regulations that pertain to the hunting of
migratory game birds. More information can be found at:
http://njfishandwildlife.com/pdf/waterfowl_federal_regs.pdf or by calling
the US Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Office at 908-787-1321.
No persons shall take migratory game birds:
 By the aid of baiting, or on or over any baited area, where a person knows or
reasonably should know that the area is or has been baited. Baiting means the
direct or indirect placing, exposing, depositing, distributing, or scattering of salt,
grain, or other feed that could serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game
birds to, on, or over any areas where hunters are attempting to take them. Baited
area means any area on which salt, grain, or other feed has been placed,
exposed, deposited, distributed, or scattered, if that salt, grain, or other feed could
serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game birds to, on, or over areas where
hunters are attempting to take them. Any such area will remain a baited area for
ten days following the complete removal of all such salt, grain, or other feed.
 requested on the permit. Check the Division’s web site in late winter for more
With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel gun, shotgun larger than 10 gauge, punt
gun, battery gun, machinegun, fish hook, poison, drug, explosive, or stupefying
substance;
 With a shotgun of any description capable of holding more than three shells,
unless it is plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without
disassembling the gun, so its total capacity does not exceed three shells.
Exceptions: In New Jersey, shotguns capable of holding no more than 7
shells are permitted during the September Canada goose season and the
Light Goose Conservation Order.
 From or by means, aid, or use of a sinkbox or any other type of low floating
device, having a depression affording the hunter a means of concealment
beneath the surface of the water;
 From or by means, aid, or use of any motor vehicle, motor-driven land
conveyance, or aircraft of any kind, except that paraplegics and persons missing
one or both legs may take from any stationary motor vehicle or stationary motor-
driven land conveyance;
 From or by means of any motorboat or other craft having a motor attached, or any
sailboat, unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled,
and its progress there from has ceased;
 By the use or aid of live birds as decoys; although not limited to, it shall be a
violation of this paragraph for any person to take migratory waterfowl on an area
where tame or captive live ducks or geese are present unless such birds are and
have been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior to such taking, confined within
an enclosure which substantially reduces the audibility of their calls and totally
conceals such birds from the sight of wild migratory waterfowl;
 By the use or aid of recorded or electrically amplified bird calls or sounds, or
recorded or electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or sounds. Exceptions: In
New Jersey, hunters can use electronic calls during: crow season,
September Canada goose season and the Light Goose Conservation Order.
 By means or aid of any motor driven land, water, or air conveyance, or any
sailboat used for the purpose of or resulting in the concentrating, driving, rallying,
or stirring up of any migratory bird;
Tagging requirement No person shall put or leave any migratory game birds at any
place (other than at his personal abode), or in the custody of another person for
picking, cleaning, processing, shipping, transportation, or storage (including temporary
storage), or for the purpose of having taxidermy services performed, unless such birds
have a tag attached, signed by the hunter, stating his address, the total number and
species of birds, and the date such birds were killed. Migratory game birds being
transported in any vehicle as the personal baggage of the possessor shall not be
considered as being in storage or temporary storage.
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Species identification requirement No person shall transport within the United States
any migratory game birds, except doves and band-tailed pigeons, unless the head or
one fully feathered wing remains attached to each such bird at all times while being
transported from the place where taken until they have arrived at the personal abode of
the possessor or a migratory bird preservation facility.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES—Some National Wildlife Refuges have portions of
their property open for migratory bird hunting. Specific regulations may apply at each
refuge. For details contact:
Edwin B. Forsythe NWR—609-652-1665
Supawna Meadows NWR—856-935-1487
Wallkill River NWR—973-702-7266
Cape May NWR—609-463-0994
HUNTING HOURS - See page 90 of Fish and Wildlife Digest for sunrise/sunset table.
 Ducks, geese, brant, coots, rails, moorhens, snipe—1/2 hour before sunrise
to sunset. For example, if sunrise is 6:30 AM and sunset is 5:00 PM, hunting
hours for these species are 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
 Woodcock—sunrise to sunset.
 Crows—sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.
 September Canada goose and the Spring Light goose Conservation Order
ONLY-1/2 hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset.
STATE REGULATIONS
State laws and regulations may be more stringent but not more lenient than those
prescribed in the federal code (Title 50).
NONTOXIC SHOT REGULATIONS— In New Jersey, no person may take ducks,
geese, brant, coots, rails, snipe, or moorhens while possessing shot other than
approved non-toxic shot. Approved nontoxic shot includes steel, bismuth, tungsten-iron,
tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix, tungsten-nickel-iron (HEVI-SHOT), tungsten-iron-
nickel-tin (TINT), tungsten-bronze and tungsten-tin-bismuth shot types. Shot size may
not exceed Size T (0.200 inch).
Restrictions:
a. MIGRATORY BIRD HUNTING IS NOT PERMITTED ON SUNDAYS IN NJ.
b. Should any open season on migratory game birds, including waterfowl, be set by
Federal regulation which would include the date of November 6, 2010, the starting
time on such date will be 8:00 A.M. to coincide with the opening of the small game
season on that date. However, this shall not preclude the hunting of migratory
game birds, including waterfowl, on the tidal marshes of the State as regularly
prescribed throughout the season by Federal regulations.
c. There shall be no open season for hunting any game birds or animals including
migratory waterfowl:
 In or on the shores of the Shark River in Monmouth County.
 In that portion of the Manasquan River from the ocean inlet upstream to Route
70 bridge.
 On Herring Island and that portion of Barnegat Bay lying between northern and
southern tips of Herring Island easterly to adjacent shoreline of Mantoloking
Boro, Ocean County.
 On Parker Creek and Oceanport Creek, Monmouth County, or the shores
thereof, southwest or upstream of the Conrail R.R. bridge.
d. Waterfowl hunting on Delaware River is governed by State boundaries and
restricted to respective state seasons.
e. Permanent blinds may not be constructed on some State Wildlife Management
Areas. See page 82 of the 2010-11 NJ Fish and Wildlife Hunting Digest.
f. Hunting with firearms is prohibited on November 5, 2010 on those State Wildlife
Management Areas designated as Pheasant and Quail Stamp areas except in
tidal marsh open to an ongoing waterfowl season. See page 64 of the 2010-11 NJ
Fish and Wildlife Digest for these areas.
g. Nontoxic shot is required for rail, snipe and moorhen hunting AT ALL TIMES.
h. Crossbows are prohibited for taking migratory game birds.
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2011 SPRING LIGHT GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER - Feb. 16 - Apr. 9, 2011.
The Division expects the US Fish and Wildlife Service to authorize a spring
Conservation Order for light geese. Special regulations apply:
1. Electronic calls are permitted.
2. Shotguns capable of holding no more than 7 shells (including magazine and
chamber) are permitted.
3. Shooting hours: ½ hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset.
4. A valid hunting license, federal and state duck stamps, and NJ Light Goose
Conservation Order (CO) Permit ($2.00) are required.
5. The NJ Light Goose CO Permit is available ONLY from the Division’s web
site or by mailing: Light Goose Permit, NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife, Code
501-03, PO Box 420, Trenton, NJ 08625-0420. A request for mailed permits
must include: 1) Photocopy of 2011 Hunting or All-Around Sportsmen license
which clearly shows the Conservation ID Number and DOB, 2) Check or
money order for $2.00 payable to NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife, 3) Self-
addressed, stamped envelope, 4) Daytime telephone number. The light
goose permit will not be available until January 2011. As part of the permit
process, hunters will be required to report their activity and harvest as
details.
WATERFOWL HUNTING ZONES
Applies to regular ducks, coots, mergansers, regular season Canada geese,
brant, regular season light geese and Youth Days.
North
Zone
Coastal
Zone
South
Zone
Coastal Zone: That portion of the State seaward of a line beginning at the New
York State line in Raritan Bay and extending west along the New York State line
to NJ 440 at Perth Amboy; west on NJ 440 to the Garden State Parkway; south
on the Garden State Parkway to the shoreline at Cape May and continuing to the
Delaware State line in Delaware Bay.
North Zone: That portion of the State west of the Coastal Zone and north of a line
extending west from the Garden State Parkway on NJ 70 to the New Jersey
Turnpike, north on the turnpike to U.S. 206, north on U.S. 206 to U.S. 1 at
Trenton, west on U.S. 1 to the Pennsylvania State line in the Delaware River.
South Zone: Portion of the State not within the North Zone or the Coastal Zone.
Woodcock North Zone—North of Route 70 from Point Pleasant to Camden.
Woodcock South Zone—South of Route 70 from Point Pleasant to Camden.
Special Sea Duck Area: Defined as any waters of the Atlantic Ocean and in
addition any tidal waters of any bay which are separated by at least 1 mile of open
water from any shore, island or emergent vegetation. In this area, hunters must
limit their hunting to open water areas at least one mile from any land or emergent
vegetation in any direction.
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